May252015

Child of Rage: A documentary about a young girl who was sexually abused when she was a year old. She has a desire to murder her entire family and carries out numerous disturbing tasks.

The Scariest Drug in the World: Scopolamine is a drug that when taken keeps a person coherent but makes them open to follow commands. It’s been used to make people steal, as a rape drug and a way to humiliate people. It’s known as a “chemical hypnosis”. This film documents people’s experience with it.

An Interview with a Cannibal: An interview with a man named, Issei Sagawa who committed a pretty horrific crime. He butchered and raped a young Dutch women because he wanted to absorb her “energy”. He spent 3 days consuming her flesh.

The Bridge: A film on the Golden Gate Bridge, which captures the number of suicides. Many describe it as a powerful documentary, that leaves a lasting impression.

High on Crack Street: Shows just how badly crack ruins lives. A great portrayal of the harsh, dark side of drugs.

Aokigahara/Suicide Forest:A geologist walks through the forest and shows us what he sees. Definitly contains some depressing material.

Atomic Wounds: The effect of a nuclear weapon on a mass number of people. It’s disheartening, it’s horrifying, but it’s reality.

Just Melvin, Just Evil: A documentary about a tormented family who suffered from sexual abuse and substance abuse because of one man. It leaves you wondering how can one man be so destructive?

Earthlings: One of the most intense documentaries made about animal abuse. Footage contains graphic material.

Feel free to add to this list :)

I’m going to have nightmares but I can’t stop looking!!! >___< Ahh!!!

I’ve seen child of rage, it’s crazy! Now I want to see the rest

OMG yessssss. Documentaries are my favorite kind of cinematography & this list just made me so excited I cant even begin to explain.

February152015

February072015

In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it's unfortunately very slow. This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system.

Remark: The video of course ignores the effects of time dilation, in the reference frame of the photons no time passes. Nevertheless it beautifully demonstrates the immensity of space and unbearable slowness of light from within a reference frame not in motion relative to the sun.

November182014

Small asteroids near Earth, with sizes of only about a meter, hit the atmosphere and disintegrate with surprising frequency - around every other week, new data show.

Data gathered by U.S. government sensors and released to NASA for use by the science community reveal that these small impact events are frequent and random. A map of these small impact events - known as fireballs or bolides - recently released by NASA shows the frequency and approximate energy released by bolide events detected from 1994 through 2013. It dwarfs a data-base of small impacts based on infra-sound detections released last fall, but it does not contain all fireballs - objects less than a meter in size - that impacted the Earth during this period.